The Toy Dodge cracked a crankshaft in 2005 as we were on the way to the Victorian High Country after Corowa. The big six only has three main bearings *(up to about 2000) the crankshaft broke just to the rear of the centre bearing.
Fixed her up and she crossed Australia a couple of time since with just a tune and oil change.
Wife had a 1992 turbo diesel Rodeo, one evening I got a call to say that a there was a lose chain in the motor and it was not going any more. Drove out to have a look popped the bonnet and there was a cylinder head and a little bit of block cling to head bolts. Walked down the road and found the block and crank in about 20 pieces on examination I noticed all the big end caps were bent open in the one direction. Took it to Holden and they sent it off to a metalurgist, got a report back to say that there had been no nuts installed on one side of the caps and a new motor was on the way. The car had just cloked over a 100,000K and they coughed for the new donk.
Was waiting for the wife at Queanbeyan railway station as she had caught the country explorer rail motor to travel back from Sydney. The train was an hour late when the station master advised that it had broken down 20 k out of town. I took the service road and drove out to the train, when I got there I found the problem. The train had hit a wombat, it had punched straight through the alloy sump and all that you could see was its hairy arse sticking out anice round hole in the engine.
